Non-violence only works when there is free (complicit) press.
Non-violent demonstration in Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union = off to the concentration camps. No press coverage. Goes nowhere.
Both Gandhi and MLK required a free press willing to participate. No press shows up for protests it’s a ‘non-event.’
Your comment needs to be tattooed on the back of every conservative’s hand. Just in case they begin to believe otherwise...
Without a complicit press his goals would have taken longer to achieve but in the same way that conservative information reaches the people despite an antagonistic press, his message would have gotten out.
In my opinion Ghandi was successful because he was dealing with a morally just culture in the British. Had he been dealing with the morally corrucpt Nazi’s or Bolshevics he and his followers would have been liquidated. Heck, they probably would have reported it in the papers as a warning to others.